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ZELENSKYY BELIEVES PUTIN WILL ESCALATE ATTACKS AS RUSSIA WEAKENS

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 from Quora Another Point of View ·   Following Posted by  Brent Cooper   11h ; see also ZELENSKYY BELIEVES PUTIN WILL ESCALATE ATTACKS AS RUSSIA WEAKENS Zelenskyy is right. It is already happening. “Zelensky warned Ukrainians that Russia may increase missile and drone strikes as Putin’s position weakens politically, militarily and economically. He urged residents to use shelters and said Ukraine had secured additional Patriot missile commitments from allies.” We have seen the sheer number of attacks on civilians escalate. About 135 missiles launched at Ukraine in January. In February 2026, some 288 missiles were launched. This is more than double January’s total In addition, February included multiple very large strike packages, often combining missiles with 400+ drones in a single night, showing a shift toward massed attacks rather than small daily strikes . By spring 2026: Russia is launching coordinated barrages (missiles + hundreds of drones together) Example:...

Moscow Refinery Blast May Have Been Caused by Friendly Fire, Video Suggests

A Missing Ingredient in Ukraine’s Barrages on Russia: Ballistic Missiles

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  Ukrainian drone attacks have achieved breakthroughs, but only ballistic missiles can push Russia to reconsider its war objectives, military experts and officials say. An oil refinery in Moscow after a Ukrainian drone attack on Thursday, in an image from social media. Credit... via Reuters By Constant Méheut Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine The New York Times , June 19, 2026, 9:15 a.m. ET Original article contains links Ukrainians have spent the past day flooding social media with footage of their army’s large-scale drone attack on Moscow. To many, the images of black smoke billowing over the Russian capital are proof that Ukraine is now able to respond in kind to Russia’s air assaults — or, as President Volodymyr Zelensky put it, “If Ukraine burns, then your Moscow will burn as well.” But the celebrations over Thursday’s attack obscure a more complicated reality. However  effective its drone arsenal may be, Ukraine still lacks the weapon that has long underpinned Russia’s most...

‘Game Changer’? Too Soon to Tell. But Ukraine Flexed in Striking Moscow

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The drone attack that sent plumes of smoke rising over Moscow intensified Ukrainian hopes of bringing the war to Russia. Smoke rising from an oil refinery in Moscow after a Ukrainian drone attack on Thursday, in an image obtained from social media. Credit... via Reuters By Siobhán O’Grady Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine June 19, 2026 Updated 9:45 a.m. ET [original article contains links] Assessments that Ukraine has reached a turning point in the conflict with Russia may well prove premature. But the towering dome of black smoke that hung over Moscow this week after a Ukrainian drone onslaught showed that Kyiv still has plenty of cards to play, no matter President Trump’s earlier appraisal of its prospects in the war. President Volodymyr Zelensky’s hand was made clear as he moved to seize the initiative both militarily and diplomatically. The strikes on Moscow left part of the city’s biggest oil refinery in flames. An immense blast sent the top of a fuel storage vessel soaring into the ...

[Trump on Ukraine]

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image (not from article) from “I’m not a big fan of Ukraine,” he [Trump] announces at a high-level Oval Office meeting. “Except their women. They keep winning Miss Universe.” ...  "He also declares his scandalous public dressing-down of the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky , in February 2025, “great television” and “better than ‘The Apprentice.’"  *** Quotations from: REGIME CHANGE: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan The New York Times , June 18

A Twist in Ukraine’s Drone Campaign Is ‘Really Hurting the Russians’

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Soldiers preparing to launch drones at targets in Russia from an undisclosed location in Ukraine last month.Credit. Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times Midrange attacks, using upgraded drones that Ukraine produces in huge numbers, are causing fuel shortages and complicating troop rotations. By Marc Santora, The New York Times Reporting from Dnipro, Kyiv and eastern Ukraine Published June 10, 2026 Updated June 16, 2026   [JB: republished June 18] article contains links First Ukraine assembled an arsenal of millions of drones that, along with Russia’s own buildup, turned a 25-mile-wide strip along the front line into a killing ground. Then Kyiv expanded its reach deep into the Russian heartland as it targeted oil infrastructure and military factories, making long-range violence in the war a two-way street. Now, Ukraine is focusing on the middle ground — the critical roads and railways, in some cases more than 100 miles from the front, that feed Russian troops and matériel in...